Thane Rosenbaum Quotes

… vengeance is seldom justice.

Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do.

… blind apostles not of mere justice but of all human decency, blind apostles not of equity but of all human outrage and vengeance.

I want no mercy. I want justice, justice, justice.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Justice is revenge.

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.

The punishment of the wrongdoer is not designed as atonement for a crime; it is a solace to the individual who has suffered a private wrong.

Let the punishment fit the crime. Noxiae poena par esto.

Recompense injury with justice.

The man who was excellent, I rewarded him well; who was evil, I punished him well.

There is no zeal blinder than that which is impaired with the love of justice against offenders.

If we can't have justice, then nobody will have justice.

Shall any man be above justice? Above all shall that man be above it, who can commit the most extensive injustice?

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

There is no such thing as justice—in or out of court.

All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape

The net of law is spread so wide, No sinner from its sweep may hide. Its meshes are so fine and strong They take in every child of wrong. O wondrous web of mystery ! Big fish alone escape from thee !

Justice should not admit a public's thirst for pure revenge.

Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and peace remains an elusive goal, since impunity generates more hatred, leading to acts of revenge and more suffering.

It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

The stories are most often about justice. In her stories, those who commit injustice, or act tyrannically, come to no good. They are punished.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.